on the meaning of "the uPortal Layout Manager"

[Sean Keesler]

Sounds awesome for creating "free form" portfolios! Authors are currently
very constrained by the FCK editor and the "Layout" tool in OSP.


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On 2/14/08 10:28 AM, "Colin Clark" <colin.clark at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Agreed. We totally need a good name for this new component. Here's a
> super-brief summary of what it does:
> 
> "It" provides an accessible means of changing the layout of content
> modules using drag and drop or the keyboard. In the case of uPortal,
> it provides a means of reorganizing the order and positioning of
> portlets, respecting the concepts of locking and precedence. We see it
> as also very useful in a learning environment, where instructors or
> students may want to reorganize page layouts based on curriculum or
> time.
> 
> Any suggestions for a great name for Fluid's latest component?
> 
> Colin
> 
> On 14-Feb-08, at 9:23 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 13-Feb-08, at 8:09 PM, Andrew Petro wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm a little worried about calling the UI-layer user preferences
>>> facilities, the Fluid component, etc. "the uPortal Layout Manager".
>> 
>> 
>> Andrew, you raise a good point, and I'll say outright that we don't
>> have any problem at all with NOT referring to it as a "uPortal Layout
>> Manager."
>> 
>> In fact, we don't really have any official name for it, and I've been
>> trying to come up with one. Technically, we have the Reorderer working
>> in concert with a PortletLayoutHandler. (The LayoutHandler is
>> responsible for the specifics of the spatial layout of whatever is
>> being reordered. Fluid also has a ListLayoutHandler and a
>> GridLayoutHandler, for example.)
>> 
>>> what's being tested is the "user
>>> layout preferences UI".
>> 
>> I'm not sure this is entirely accurate either, because it's not really
>> dealing with preferences - at least, not what I think of as
>> preferences. I think of preferences as a collection of settings - but
>> I could probably be convinced otherwise :-)
>> 
>> 
>> I've been thinking of it in my head as a "Portlet Reorderer" which
>> doesn't sound very elegant to me.
>> 
>> Any other suggestions, anyone?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
>> Software Designer, Fluid Project           fluidproject.org
>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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